What Do You Think of This?

Bergman (with Bibi Andersson) talks to Dick Cavett about the difference between actors and actresses. What he is saying, basically, is that women, by education, are used to objectifying themselves — and also (as Andersson suggests) hiding their narcissism — and are therefore, by societal conditioning, more suited to acting than men. This might explain why, at any given time, there are more great actresses than actors.